“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Our session last evening was a rather serious one, for I believe it necessary that the terms of these endeavors be stated at once, and as clearly as possible. I do not want to burst any bubbles, nor did I want to encourage you along these lines unless you were willing to devote considerable energy in these directions. We can now to some degree relax and enjoy a quiet evening. I am aware of your considerable list of formidable questions. We shall get to these in good time.

(Pause.) Do not ask any questions here. These are merely loose impressions. A bad stumble. Difficulty with a third vertebra (pause), leading to unequal nerve pressures. The condition originating in one incident some time ago, and further aggravated by a second incident in more recent times. (Pause.)

Two particular yoga exercises will be of benefit here. They must be done very slowly however. Only one of them a day to begin with for a two-week period, and then the two of them may be done each day. The one where the individual lies frontward down on the floor, and lifts up from the arms, Joseph, you know this one.

Now. On the diet of your Stephen. (Pete’s brother.) We find a confusion in body chemistry, caused either by the diet itself at present, or alternating changes of diet. (Pause.) Some actual, though not drastic, starvation of tissues from the same causes. Each individual utilizes carbohydrates and protein in a slightly different manner and what is good for one is not necessarily for another.

There is an overemphasis here on the one hand, and a lack on the other. (Pause.) There is not sufficient fat of the kind that the body derives through carbohydrates, that are sustaining. What is needed is a balanced diet, a normally balanced diet. If weight loss is desired then less should be eaten. No whole body of foods such as carbohydrates should be drastically reduced. This puts the body chemistry in an unbalanced condition.

There is nothing wrong in trying to perceive tomorrow. (Pause.) It is risky however to live today in such a manner. There are too many errors that can be made when dealing with precognitive elements. You are dealing with a world of probabilities. Now Ferd looked into a possible future, and this was quite legitimate—as a probable future. There is much concerning time that you do not yet understand, and I cannot explain it to you, unfortunately, in an evening. This may sound contradictory, but it is not. It is possible to perceive the future as it will be; on the other hand the future itself is always changing, for you change it in the present. (Pause.) In the precise moment in which you spoke the words, there was a probability, and a good one, that the event would occur as stated.

An R, the letter R, J, or an R and a J, being the initials of one name, or the first initial of two first names. (Pause.) In an Australian connection. A room (pause) that appears bare, though it is not necessarily, giving the impression of more size than it possesses. This is an Australian residence.

Now give us time. (Pause.) It is connected to a woman. Approximately five foot five, though somewhat shortened now, as with age. Simply the word Osburn connected here. (My phonetic interpretation.) Perhaps letters from an Osburn at one time. This in the past, with the Osburn connection.

The hair at one time a rather odd gray—a strange darkish gray. I believe a mole here (Jane touched her right cheek); though it may not be a mole but some facial characteristic here, you see. (Touch again.) A voice with a clicking sound. I believe these impressions referring to the grandmother.

Three children in a kitchen, sitting in a row, in her past, and she is one of them. She is six. (Pause.) There is an argument among adults, and a door slams. The location was near water, or the street had water in it, or there was a connection with swans—all of this applying to that episode.

There is some resentment here, a smoldering one. She would have preferred to have been born a male. This is her first existence as a woman. An episode occurring when she was approximately in a sixth grade (pause) added to an already existing sense of insecurity. (Pause.) There are also other-life connections that enter in here. The family also uses the mother as a way of testing its own strength and unity, and as a method of channeling aggression. Often she picks up the aggression of the family, and then reacts for you all. You can then blame her without facing the fact of the underlying aggression.

She is one pole of the family, and you are the other (to Pete). You have the loyalty and unswerving support of the others, partially simply because their aggressions are channeled in an opposite direction and toward another family member. (Long pause.)